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POETICAL.
A WARNINU CRY.
bt MIPS SHKRIDAN cakkt.
Toiling from the morning gray—
Toiling; toiling through Die day,
Till dio n|>iril fainln away,
Bound,in triple iron, bound,
Bt ihe laper'a famished light.
Toiling- toiling through (he night,
Till tlu* dim and aching sight
Secs but shadow* gathering round,—
Till the lip 1 * warm hue is gone—
Till the brow is worn and wan—
Till the pitying sun looks on—
(,'taping slaves in stupor enst;—
Toiling through the hours <*f pain.
Taxing hand,and heart nud hrnin,
Bread—and scarcely bread— to'gain!
Shall this—ahull this ever Iasi?
Slnll the spoiler seiv.e by stealth
Youth,and hope, and strength, nnd health ?
Nature's dowrv—nature’s wealth—
Shall they—shall they ever be—
Yontli and hope,an April beam ?
Strength delusion ? health, a dream 7
Age—a fearful ghastly theme—
Pain, and grief, nud penury ?
Thou who seest! Thou who henrest!
Thou the mourner’* heart whocheerest!
Thou who, veiled in clouds, appeareet
Swill, and terrible, and strong !
Uuto Thee, with stony eve,
Bloodless cheek, and boding cry,
Doomed to toil,and toil—or dik,
Want appealeth/'Lord, how long ?”
Yc whom “confidence” is gold,
False, rapacious, crafty, bold—
Who the laborer’s hire withhold—
Who the fruits of toil deny—
Who the starving poor distress,
Who the week, the old, oppress—
Tremble! they shall have redress,
Lo! their groans are heard on high!
Tremble! tremble! well ye may—
Godless tyrants of a day—
Trampling on your (ellow-clay!
Trampling Am wrn hearts lo dust!
Vengeance is the Lord’s ! beware!
He will list the poor man’s prayer,
Raise the crushed, and chase despair!
isJui
Tyrants,
November, 1844.
the Lord is Just !
TO ONE WHO MAY UNDERSTAND.
“ How oft have I, in dreamy youth,
Fancied some being bright and fair,
Whom I could love us holy truth,
And on my boFOm nestle tire re,
“ But ail my dreams like dreams were naught,
Aud all iny fancy fancied vain.
Until thy smile illumin’d tny heart,
Aud now 1 live in dreams again.
“ The sweetest dream that ever rose
In viiion bright before my eyes,
And made me long iusweet repose
For dreamy life that never die*.
“ Not all the joys of erery hour
Though crowded in a moment’* space,
Can equal half that holy power
I feel iu gazing on thy face.
“ I’d rather have a look, a smile,
Thtn live again in dreamv I ife;
I’d even try and die awhile,
Then wake, to know thee as my wife,”
MISCELLANEOUS.
6/
VOIa. XXXVI-
•Out harder to part with Freeman, tie it go .
r lirra. am] may the Father of the orphan bleae vou,
my daughter,’and Mra. Worthington ha.lenod to
•hut burst'll in lierchainbor to give vent to her aor-
row nud anxiety in tear*.
thira was the youngest of four aislcrs, who
wuro uii married but herself. Site was just twen
ty-two, rather handsome, vary ugroeubltr, and a fa
vorite in tlio circle in which .lie moved; hut a
•liglit vein of autire that sometimes spoiled Iter
Conversation, gave evidence of a latent temper that
the vexations ol life had tint yet drawn out. The
Hash of Iter dark eye and the Imughty curl of iiei
crimson lip when crossed in any little plan site had
formed, told loo of a spirit (hut would joy in the
stormy element of life, hut that life hod liitlieriu
flowed so placidly that she fancied herself good
tempered.
A few inoiitlia previous to the date of our story
site Imd been introduced, by one of Iiei brother in
laws, to a young stranger from the extreme west of
our country—or rather what was the extreme west
some years since—who was on a mission of some
public nature connected with stute affairs, from his
section lo congress. Uv one of those uoaccount-
uble freuks that people puzzle themselves to give
rational roasons for, Flora fell in love, nnd the
stranger fell in love too, especially after hearing
site wus possessed of a few thousand dollars. He
was soun Flora’s declared and accepted lover, and
as he assured Iter “he could not live” without she
accompanied him home ; and she too feared “she
would die” sho had to remain all winter in the city
w ithout seeing him, it was arranged, they should
be married, und Mrs. Worthington having given a
reluctant consent. Flora prepured to follow him
MILLEOGEV1LLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, IH44.
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were tenderly nurtured in your youth, could ever
aravu hardships end toil iu this new country , end
instead of finking under it'grow healthy and happy,
und remuin even now, in old age, so active and so
capable of serving ail around you—of making all
lovn you,"
“I will tell you, my Flora, this mystery was
love—love, nature’s primal word, as an old German
woman onco called it to me in my youth. 1 loved
my husband fondly and rutionally. and we camo to
tit s new land—for the sake of our children. I
loved my children, and when He took my husband
l managed hy active industry to keep them logelh.
er; I taught them their duty to God audio nun.
nnd instructed litem by tny example to love ull
mankind.
"You do not hate even mo, then?” said Flora
softly.
“No—1 Imvo been vexed sometimes, but never
once did I harbor such a feeling as hatred and a-
hove ull not to the wife of tny first born.’' Flora
closed tier eyes, but the tears wore still stealing
do* n the pallid cheek.
“There is a love, Flora,” the old lady gently be
gan, “evon stronger Ilian Iho human love. It is
the pure, divine lovo tlmt pervades the heart ol
the Christian. Would that you, dear Flora, might
once feel its divine influence—it would illuminate
the path of life even to you.”
“Say rather it would light ilia dark valley, dear
mother,” said Flora, “for it is that 1 feel l sltull
shortly tread. I have thrown from me all the af
fection that might Imvo made life happy, and now
I am going to dm with not one—not even him ,.
and her voice grew husky and cholked by luars.—
her Inst hoarse whisper was, "Teach my little Flo
ra this mystery of love.”—National Magazine for
December.
FLORA.—A BACKWOOD STORY.
BV MRS. U. N. SARQBNT.
’Areyou sure, Flora, you love litis stranger well
I enough to leave mother, sisters, friends and home
tor him, and permit me to add, an easy life of so-
cislenjuymem among friends for unknown con
nexion.!’
Flora’*cheek was varying through all the shades
I uom rose to crimson, ns with earnest voice and
leetlul eyes her mother thus questioned her, nnd
bar trembling fingers scarcely held the needle with
*liicb ,he was embroidering some trifle. Mrs.
Wurthington waited a few minutes, and as Flora
| **1 not speak, she continued :
'* Me( i not repeat what you have so often heard,
i '“l marriage is the most important step in a wo-
j nttn * lif B . M U n marry injudiciously j and, fora
I l| n»e, msy be very unhappy; but u thousand ave-
"aa* lie open through which they may seek relief
| 'atn the annoyance of a disagreeable companion.
Ambition beckons him up the dazzling ascent to
or the acquisition of wealth tnuy engross his
•••nil energies ; and he meets so many object*
L?* 1 * 10 ( * iv 'de his attention that his home may
only hke his boarding house, so that how-
! ?,r ""pleasant such a statu of affairs may be, Itis
•ol an absorbing grief, he does not lose casto in
but continues to occupy that position lo
J* bis weoltli or condition may entitle him, and
t> ^ ^*loct hi* own associates. On the contrary,
"tie becomes but a chattel in the eye of the
I *i * creature to be supplied with the necessary
“*wii of |ir 0 hm a( hi* ability tnay procure
"i for her, to enjoy such only as his condition in
A 1 ®*)' *fford ; lor she sink* al once to Itis grude.
L Mu,* become, the inmate of itis relutions.
«i« requires a very devoted degtee of attach-
litad unless a woman can suy in the touching
of Ruth, *tny country shall he thy coutt-
IfV *
| 7J>*od whither thou guest I will go also,’ she had
, - pause for repining after merringe is as hope
of th* u "8 r »coful, and never is able lo avail itself
tit ' l m«y excite. Tills man is, I ad
»f »h ,0m * ^ a g reual) le,bul he is a stranger
.l con acxion» we know nothing, hat with
pj'babit* aud prejudices, for every body has
J^i t°es,|you are unacquainted. Dearest Flora.
•f soT’ 0 " '° v ® *'' m w * t * 1 ,rue * ,,ve lhtt '
1*11 "alaution, and let me when 1 lose my dnugh.
lb* "°* 'bat her happiness at least is secured b)
I*, Cr mcc,’and the tears whiclt she could no
p| ""PPress rolled down the mother's cheek,
lltn k” , lle( * *>er head on her hands, and wept
ij ? 1 *h« "poke no word.
Pr— ,r »ly. my daughter, do you love thi-
•a* to. # '*®** enou gh ntwndon all ihst is dear t“
.ry° °* w * nd “"triad friends nnd aennea 1’
toother It t* very—very hard to part with
Mrs. Freeman saw site was too ill to talk, and so
with confiding trust of woman, and thus give ono. j it proved. Flora died—died in the prime of life,
titer commentary on the old saying of "marry in j with nono to regret, and only one high minded
haste and repent at leisure.” j Christian to sooth hor through the dark shadow.—
It wus a beautiful autumn evening when the city j She died on the bosom of her mother-in-law, and
bred girl arrived ut Iter husband's home. They
had taken it curringo at the landing on the river,
nnd the billowy prairie sprend its living carpet ol
green far as the eye could reaclt, while the scarce
ly perceptible road wound on through ‘its blooming
luxuriance. Soon a tall forest lifted its undulat
ing line along the horizon, and us they journeyed
on, it clearing began to be visible, the long waving
curl of blue smoke ascending lur up in (lie serene
ether. At first appeared large corn fields, then a
barn, nnd lastly a log cabin built on the verge of
the wood, hut not close enough to ho benefilled by
its shade, while felled timber und corn cribs, wood
sheds aud pig-pens obstructed the palii to the door
of the rude and lowly dwelling. There was a dark
red spot on Freeman’s cheek as lie approached his
home, and lo Flora’s eager questions relative to his
family, lie gave such briel and unsatisfactory an.
suers that it long silence Imd sunk down over them
und Flora felt chilled hy Itis reserve. A lad ran
out of u field und in joyful haste hailed his brother,
while his while head, bare logs nudarms.aud rug
ged trowsors excited a surprised stare from Flora.
Throwing him the reins, Fieetnun lifted his bride
to the ground, und in (hat moment an old woman
iu u red flannel dress, white cambric cap, aud lilac
apron came to the door, and sticking her thumb
into the short stemmed pipe site was smoking, site
gave a loud cry of joy and grasped the bund of
Freeman. Flora shrunk buck us slut extended
Iter band tlio next moment lo her, nnd only permit
ted the tip* of her gloved fingers lo come in con
tact with the hardened and sinewy hand thut so
Cordially welcomed her. It never occurred to her
llml those limbs might once have been as soft us
iters, until exposed to toil aud hardships for him,
whom she Imd preferred lo all the world, and that
hers, in turn, might become ns rigid in time. Site
only felt disgust nud surprise at her uncouth cos
tume, and stopped not to reflect how many sterling
virtues might be covered by the coarse homespun
garb. Severul fine, sun burned young men all in
counti v garb, came crowding in, and as Freeman
presented each in turn, she formally curtisied to
each, and with a flushed cheek and contracted brow
sunk on the chair iho mother of the family offer
ed her. As she looked round on the humble, but
neat dwelling, the plain, useful furniture, (lie nice
ly arranged beds and implements of female indus
try, her angry passions were awakened at wlmt she
thought had been a trick played on her hy Free
man, und she internally resolved lo maimuiu iter
own habits and manners, and as early h* possible
disengage herself front all connexion with Iter hus
band’s family. The elder Mrs. Freeman now ap
proached, nnd in a kind voice invited her to tuke
a lurge pile of wood on the ample henrth, and cull
ing an their mother “to make the fire," followed
offlier tilings. While (isrobing, the boys pluced
their brother out. Floru looked with dismay at
the logs, sufficient she thought, to dress a dozen
dinners ; hut the old dame soon relied them into
order, and a blazing fire nnd the clean hearth spread
an air of comfort over the apartment.
Mrs. Freeman, with the dexterity of a back,
wood’s cook, soon produced a supper that aston
ished even Flora by its variety und plenty ; und
the kind and affectionate manner of the old lady to
hor sons, ami llteir frank, good humor would have
conciliated any heart but Iters. Site sut sullenly
brooding over her fancied wrongs until a real head
ache, which was at only »u excuse for not eating,
drove Iter to bed.—Freeman and Itis mother sut
long conversing together, and Flora suw tears be
dewing the venerable cheek of the old toil-worn
mother, bulso furfrom softemngher heart site tried
to strengthen herself in her aversion lo her mother-
in-law.
Thu* Flora continued proud and cold toward her
husband’s relatives, signing; for Iter own city home,
nnd ridiculing, with all the tnrcnstic irony of her
natural disposition, everything nnd every ono that
accorded not with her own ideas of nropriety.—
Freeman gradually grew rich and pupubtt, became
a man of public business, a politician nnd spent but
little time with his cross wild. The only friend in
fuel that sympathized with her uilmenls or bore
with her frolfulness was her despised mollier-in.
law ; nnd whon ill health, the result of voluntary
confinement and sedentary habits, made her a pris.
oner ut home, she was the only one who offered lo
console her or to alleviate her sufferings ; for her
husband had long since learned “he should” not
“die” of_absence from her. Poor Flora, she had
cast tlio gem of life thut gave it all its lustre from
Iter, ami no wonder every thing was dark lo
At length Flora became n mother, and through
the sweet little girl thut was Iter own itnAge, sho
onco more felt iho slirings of nffeclioa towurds llu*
husband whom site had so long treated with con
but it came too late.
lemptuous aversiun ; But It came too ia»-. He
scarcely marked tlio quivering lip, tho tearful eye.
the changing cheek of Flora ns she uncovered Iter
littio ttenaure to present it to him, and only remark
ing. “that children were great annoyances. ’ he
coldly left the room. From that hour Flora
grew very ill. She felt the should die, and all the
kindness, all the forbearing love of Mrs- Nreetnan
rose up to reproach her.
One day as she was landerly placing her pillows.
Flora drew heroheek down to her lips, and kissing
h«r burst into tear*. The old lady gently (•turned
harosres* and disengaging her arm from hsrnack
soothed her into tranquility.
“Mother,” said sho tremulously, and it was the
first tim» she had ever thus addressed her—“moth
er it has been a great mystery to me buw you, who
[from the n. o. ckescent city.]
FLOGGING AN EDITOR.
Some years ago, a populous town, located to-
wards the interior of Mississippi, was infested hy a
gang of blacklegs, who amused themselves at times
by pteying upon each other. A new importation
of these sporting gently exciting some alarm
among tho inhabitants, lest they should he com
pletely overrun—they determined therefore on
their expulsion. A poor devil of a country Editor,
who was expected by virtue of his vocation to take
upon himself all the responsibilities from which
niters might choose to shrink, wus peremptorily
called upon by his “patrons”—that is, those who
paid him two dollars u year for itis paper,and there
fore presumed they owned him, soul and body—to
make an effort towards the extermination of the
enemy. Tlio unfortunate editor, like most ol edi
tors, being gifted witli just about as much brains ns
money—skull and purse both empty—said at once
that lie would indite a "flasher,” one that would un-
doubtedlydrive the obnoxious vermin into som t more
hospitable region. And when his paper appeared,
it was a "flusher,” sure enough. In the course of
his observations, lie gave the initials of several of
the fraternity, whom lie advised to leuve town ns
speedily as possible, ifllicy bad the slightest desire
to save llteir bacon.
The next morning, while the poor scribe was
comiorlubiy scutud to his office, listlessly fumbling
over u tneugre parcel of exchanges, lie heard foot
steps on lite stuirs, nod presently an individual hav
ing accomplished the ascent, made his appearahee.
His first salutation was slightly abrupt.
’ Whern's the editor of this d ». b dirty, tying
paper.
Now, aside from the rudeness of this opening
interrogatory, there were other considerations to
induce (lie editor lo believe tltni there was trouble
on foot. Tho personage who addressed him, bore
a cowhide in bis band, and, moreover, seemed lo be
exceedingly enraged. This was not ull—lie recog
nized iu him a distinguished leader oi tho sporting
fruternily, with whose cognomen he had token ve
ry irreverent liiierlies. It was without the slight
est hesitation, therefore, he replied lo the intro
ductory query.
•1 don’t know.’
‘Do you belong to the concern V
‘No, indeed ; but 1 presume the editor will soon
be in.’
‘Well,’ said tho visitor, ‘I will wuit for him,’and
suiting the action to the word, composedly took u
clmir, picked up a puper and commenced reading.
•If 1 meet him,’suid the frightened knight of the
scissors and quill,‘l wilt tell him there is a gent^'
man here who wishes to sec him.
As he reached the foot of the stairs, in H ’,
hasty retreat, he was accosted by another person,
who thus made himself known :
■Can you tell me where I can find the sneaking
rascal who bus charge of this villainous sheet 7
producing the lust number of “Freedom’s Echo
und Buttle Axe of Liberty.’
‘Yes,’replied the editor “he is up therein the
office now (ending, with his back to ihe door.’
‘Thank you.’t-xcluimed the stranger us he bounc.
ed up stuirs.
•I’ve got you, have I,’ ejaculated lie, us ha matin
a grasp at Ins brother iu iniquity, and they came
clashing to the floor together.
As the combatants, notwithstanding the similar
ity of their voculion, happened lobe unacquainted
with eaclt other, “a very pietly quurrel” ensued.
First ono was al the top, then the other—blow fol
lowed blow, kick followed kick, and oath followed
oath, until bruised, exhausted und bloody, with faces
and features resembling Deaf Burke after a two
hours’ pugilistic encounter, there was by mutual
consent a cessation of hostilities. As the warri
ors sat on the floor contemplating each other, the
first comer found breuth enough loask,
* VV ho are 1 W hat did you attack me for 1’
•You abused me in your paper, you scoundrol.’
‘Me ! I'm not lite editor ; 1 came here to flog
him myself!’
Mutual explanations nnd apologies ensued, and
the two mistaken gentlemen retir'd lo‘bind up their
wounds.’ As the story comes to us, the distin
guished individual whose vocation it was to en
lighten the world by the aid of that great engine,
the public press, escaped Scot-free.
[l is said that when Louis Philippe was called
upon, during his installation us a Knight of the
Gurter, to declare that he ‘will not make any unjust
or unholy war upon the Sovereign of the order,’ lie
repeatedly and emphatically excluitned, ‘No, 1 nev
er will.’
fits Best Cows.—You cannot be absolutely cer
tain, when you purchase heifers, that you will huvti
good cows, but by close attention you may acquite
he art pretty accurately whether they will prove
good. The first point is the udder, if this is not ca
pacious or if it has not the power of becoming so,
she never will be a groat milker. Then the color
of the skin will be important; if you would have
ricii milk it should he yellow, nr rather a muliogo-
ny color; but you will want goo-! teats to draw the
milk ; large teals, not standing close together, are
u good sign. These are the most importuul points.
As to the form of tho cow, you will not choose a
lurge head and horns, for it cost too much to sup
port them ; nor long legs to make you hold the pail
up from the ground, und to require high fences.
Long legs require loo much support, they are not
good even for travelling. Choose short legged
animals whenever you have the choice, whether
cows, oxen*, horses, or hogs* Choose slender
necks and ttpering tuils ; straight backs and broad
briskets, for such feed belter und are less liable to
iiscaso. Tbeco-v’s body should be largo in com
parison with bead and limbs, but it is not an object
to keep veiy huge cows or oxen, or horses on our
lurms, as a general rule. Middle sized cows, and
tho-e below if, you almost always find befer milk
ors Ilian large cows are.
In regard to the color of Ihe body, a red or yel
low, or a yellow briodle, is as indicative as any of
a good riclt milker. You cannot always determine
hy any external murks, whether your heifer will
pruvu a good cow. Alter trying her one summer,
youcan tell belter, and you can then turn her off
lor liuef if you choose. On purchasing, you will
have some regard to color us a matter of fancy.
Nobody wants a black cow or a white one ; and
though n partly colored cotvs ure endurable, no
white man buys a shuiik colured itorse fur bis own
keeping.
IMiid anti gentle cotvs are belter llian irritable an.
imals, and will bo more ready to yield llteir milk.
By close scrutiny you can determine in some de
gree hy the countenance and the motions of tile
heifer whether the is naturally docile, yet very
much depends on Iter breaking—Iter treatment and
education during the first season. Various treat
ment will make any Ultima! vicious ; still, there is
a difference of character independent of education;
Examine the evn und the face of the heifer; a large
mild eye, with a yellow circle or halo around it, is
a good indication. The luce should not be large,
and the bones should be small in proportion to the
body. A lurge chest is evidence of good lungsund
oi a hardy animal. The hip* should be well spread
for obvious reasons.
By proper utlention lo selecting and breeding we
may just as tvt II have it race of cows that will yield
ten pounds. VVekuow of no neat slock superior
to our red Devon cattle—such as we meet with in
New England.—Mass. Ploughman.
Mr, Clay and (he Kentucky Electors.
minaMdi hot, oolse* I «■> greMly eetf-deoefved,
theprlocip.l.ttr.ctJonSsa.Vui.feeof
ideal of the (Jaked StalM,'MN OM of «*■#-
‘•had hope thet i might be U banfcU iUMRWW*.
Provkteode, la awplhh. white
of the
The Elephant.—It is related oftltis woll known
attinml, ilnit Messrs Raymond & Co. some time a
go sent n small menagerie travelling South. Al Mo.
bile they intended to stay several weeks, nnd us the
exhibition wus he'd under the canvass, it was neces
sary to find Bomo secure place for the elephant.—
The animal wits notorious for bis dexterity in get.
ting loose, und the Sheriff kindly offered thejuil
yard, wh'clt was surrounded by a high and strong
sluim wall. Fora time the prisoner appeared ve
ry indifferent about Itis confinement ; but one
inon i g p o'mbly thinking the detention illegul, Its
resolved not lo wait for it writ of habeas corpus, but
putting Itis head noai st the wall, pushed a section
of it down, ami sturled on a lour of discovery n
round the city. This was before day light, and
scarcely any ono was moving. An industrious
French baker, however. Imd put Itis bread smoking
hot into Itis wagon in the alley, ready to start at
the break of day. Tho elephant happened to come
into Itis vicinity, aud was not long in ascertaining
where brenklnst was to be had. So, throwing
down the gate, he soon made Itis way to tho wagon,
und the Inures began to disappear with marvellous
rapidity. The astonished Eieiicliman wisely a
Imndoued all defence of liis property, and started
ut the greatest hurry for the keeper, who lodged
near lltn canvass. Quick ! quick ! vile ! Munsi
cur; vile! votre uleplmut come aud bruko my
gait—lie lift my cart mure as tree nten cant;
make so much shake, de bred all fly out, and It
oat him all up.” Tite keeper went to the spot, and
found Itis mightiness, very reluctantly, to loave bis
meal unfinished.
Twelve men, employed twenty-four hours a day,
reuding at the rate of eighty words per minute,
would barely keep up with the hooks published in
London, nnd if magazines, 'reviewed, and newspa
pers were added, it would require upwards offuriy
men.
To make Vinegar.—Lock an old maid or A
bachelor Into a room, with * keg of molasses In a
few hours the molasses will turn to most excellent
vinegar.
It costs us more to be miserable than would make
us perfectly happy; hour cheap and eaey is the
service of virtue, and how dear do we pay for our
vices.
Early Love—Man and Woman.—“Love’s first
steps are upon lite rose,’ says the proverb—its see
<>nd finds the thorn.’ Like the maiden of the fairy
"tie. we destroy our upell when wo open it lo ex
ri,'hinc iii whet character it is written, lo its igno
I hr.ee is tite fever of hope—no fears, for there is no
calculation—no selfishness, for it asks for nothing
n i disappointment, for nothing is expected :
like the deep quiet enjoyment of basking in the
bright sunshine wititout thinking of either how the
glad warmth will ripen our fruits and flowers, or
how the dark clouds iu the distance forebode
slot in.
I doubt whether the morning twilight of the af
fections bus the same extent of duration und influ
dice in man mat it has iu woman ; the necessity of
exertion for attainment lias been early inculcated
upon him—lie knows that ifhe would win, lie must
woo—und his imagination acts chiefly as a stimu
lus. But a woman's is of a more passive kind
lie lias no motives for analyzing feelings whose
fiture rests not with herself; more imaginative
from early sedentary habits, site is content lo dream
on, and some chance reveals lo herself tho secret
she would never have learnt from self-invesliga
ion. Imbued with all the timidity, exalted by all
the romance of a first attachment, never did a girl
vet calculate on ntuking wliul is called a conquest
of the resource of weariness—the consolation of
lisnppoinlment—a second world of vanity and am
biliun, sighed for like Alexander’s, but not till we
nave wasted nnd destroyed lite heart's first sweet
world of early love.
Facination and Fear.—A correspondent of the
New York Journal of Coinmoree relates lite follow
ing incident.
I once in n forest watched for a few moments
striped squirrel crawling slowly toward the open
j'.wsofn rattlesnake, whiclt lay stretched across
tite road, in the path my horse was travelling. A
second thought induced me lo cease idly gazing ;
and, at once dismounting, I cut a long pole, drove
the reptile from the puth, and took the squirrel tn n.y
band without its attempting to esc.tpe ; but it died
in a few minutes, although not within ten feel of
the serpent.
A black sc, vant not a hundred miles from St. An
drew’s, being examined in lite Church Catechism
by the minister of the parish, who asked, “What
are you made of, Jack V He said, “of mud mas.
On being luld be should say, “of dust,” he re
plied, “No ttiassa, it no do. no slick togeddes.”
A Good Hit.—An old “hardshell’’friond of ours,
in his sermon on Sunday lest, said, “that no one
ever got religion in a great batik." Ifhe is to be
believed, and he is a man of truth, the better half
Wo copy from the Lexington Reporter the fol
lowing report of the interesting interview which
look pluce in that city between Mr. Clay end the
Kentucky Electors i
Mr. Clay.—According to promise, we present
to our readers to-day the address of tho Kentucky
Electors to Mr. Clay, and that genllemun’s res
ponse. We doubt not they will bo read with pro
found interest by every lover of liberty in America.
Wo attempted heretofore to give an account of
the imposing scene, feeling all the while how im
possible it was for words alone to exhibit it to those
who did not witness it.
To see that vcneruhle man standing at his own
threshhold—bereft of power and peace, by the vil
est muchinutions and most unrelenting persecution
—surrounded in funeral silence and solemnity by
the chosen and most gifted men of his adopted
Slate—by his nearest neighbors and oldest friends
—was impressive nnd overpowering beyond des
cription. To hear the outpourings of their bruised
hearts, and Itis calm yet deeply felt response—to
Deltoid Itis moist eye nnd quivering lip, nnd their
manly tears, excited unutterable emotions.
But we will not dwell upon titis subject; we nev
er expect to lie called on to chronicle such another
occurrence, live though we muy beyond the ordina
ry life of man.
Upon reaching tlie door of Mr. Clay’s dwelling,
Mr. Underwood, surrounded by the other Electors,
by tite Governor and thu ex-governors. Metcalfe nnd
Letcher, und tlio people who ultended, read the fol
lowing address lo Mr. Clay ;
Mr. Clay—I have been selected by lite inom-
rs of the Electoral College to suy lo you for each
one of us, that wc have come lo offer you thu hom
age of our personal regard and profound respect.
In titis work of the heart, many of your neighbors
have likewise r.otne to unite with us. On yesterday
Frankfort, we performed our official duty in obe
dience to tite will of tho people of Kentucky, by
oling unanimously for yourself arid Theodoro
■’relinghuysen to fill the ofliccs of President and
Vico President of the United Stales.
I’lte machinations of your enemies, llteir frauds
upon tite elective I'rnticliiso, nnd their duplicity with
the people, in promulgating opposite principles in
different sections, huve dell uled your election.
We huve no hope oi preferment at your hands,
Inch etui tempt us to flutter; nor can the pen
proscription intimidate us iu speukiuglho truth.
Under existing circumstances it gratifies us to take
on by lite hand, nnd to unite, ns we do most cordi-
lly, in expressing the sentiment* of our hearts and
f those we represent, in regard to your personal
Intruder and political principles.
Your past services ore so interwoven with the
history of our country for the lust forty years, that
malice und envy cannot prevent succeeding gener
ations dwelling on your name with admiration aud
gratitude. Your example will illuminate lite path
of future statesmen, when those who hate and re-
e you are forgotlon, or are only remembered,
like the incendiary who burnt the temple, for the
vil they itave done.
To vou lite election lias terminated without per-
sono I mss; but lo lite nation, in our judgment, lite
•jury is incalculable. God gram that the confed-
rucy may not hereafter mourn over the result in
dismembered fragments.
Whilst your enemies Itave not attempted lode,
fact from your intellectual churacler, they have
rilh untiring malice uttacked your moral regnla-
ion and endeavored to destroy it. The verhul
ilaoders and printed libels employed as tncuns to
accomplish political objects, huve stained tite char
acter of our country nnd its institutions more than
they have injured your’s.
In your high personul character, iu your political
principles und unrivalled zeal and ability to curry
Item tint, may ho found the strong motives for our
oxious efforts to secure your election. The pro.
lection of American lubor, a National Currency
connected with a fiscul agent for the Government,
tliu Distribution among the Stales of the proceeds
of tite Public Lands, further constitutional restric-
ions upon Executive power and pulronnge, a limi
tation upon the eligibility of tho President for a so.
und term, were measures, which under vour od.
ministration we hoped lo muture nnd bring into
practical operation. By your defeut they Itave
been endangered, if not forever lost.
But wo will not speculate on coming events. If
things work well, wo shall find consolation in the
genernl prosperity. If apprehended evils come,
we urn not responsible ; and retaining our princi
pies, we shall enjoy the happy reflection of having
done our duty.
In tite shades of Ashland may you long continue
to ,'iijny peace, quiet und the possession of those
great faculties which have rendered yon the sdmira
lion of your friends and the benefactor of your
country. And whon nt lust, d nth shall demund its
victim, while Kentucky will contain your ashes,
cut assured, that old and faithful friends—those
vho knowing you longest, loved you best—will
cherish your memory and defend your reputation
BEN. HARDIN.
J. R. UNDERWOOD.
R. A. PATTERSON,
PHILIP TRIPLETT.
W. W. SOU THGATE,
W. R. GRISBY.
JOHN KINCAID,
L. W. ANDREWS,
GREEN ADAMS.
B. MILLS CRENSHAW.
LESLIE COMBS,
W. J. GRAVES.
in (be betide of .
good. I desired to ••• Ih*
general Government restored, aid lo eoo
and evils, which I sfnoerely believed etteot
it, averted end remedied. I Wes usfoaa the! the
policy of tho country,oapeoially in the great de
partment of ite domestic labor end indeatry, shoetd
be fixed and stable, that all might know bow to re
gulate nnd accommodate their conduct. Andt fill,
ly convinced of the wiadom of Ibe public mooaonis,
which you have enumerated, I hope to live to w4>-
ness, nnd to contribute to, their adoption and es
tablishment.
MR. CLAY REPLIED :
I um greutly obliged, gentlemen, by tite kindness
lowurds me, which lias prompted Ibis visit from tlio
Electors of Kentucky
of creation, or at least the belter part of our popu
lation, are in great danger of being lost.—Ex.
change paper.
Governor, tho Presidential
aud some of inv fellow-citizens, in privule life
And 1 thank you, sir, (Mr. Underwood) llteir organ,
on litis occas on, for the feeling und eloquent ad
dress which you have just dona me the honor to de
liver. 1 am under the greatest obligations lo the
Peoplo of Kentucky. During more titan forty
years of my life, they have demonstrated their con
fidence and uffection lowurds me, in every variety
of form. This Inst und crowning evidence of their
long und faithful at'achment, exhibited iu the vote
which, in llteir behalf, you gave yesterday, at the
seat of Ibe Slate Government, as the Electoral Col
lege of Kenlucky.fills me with overflowing grati
tude. But 1 should fail to express the feelings of
tny heart, if I did not ulso offer my profound and
grateful acknowledgments to Ihe other States,
which have united witii Kentucky, in the endeavor
lo elect mo lo the Chief Magistracy of the Union,
aud lo the million and a quarter of freemen, em
bracing so much virtue, intelligence and patriotism,
who, wherever residing, have directed strenuous
and enthusiastic exertions lo the same object.
Their effort lias been unavailing, and the issue of
the election has not corresponded with their anx
ious hopes and confident expectations. You have
sir, assigned some of the causes which you suppos
ed have occasioned tho result. I will not trust
myself to apeak of them. My duty is that of per
fect submission lo an svent, which is now irre
coverable.
So fer a* respects any official agency of mine, it
has been otherwise decreed, and I bow respectful
ly to the decree. The future course of Ihe Gk>v.
eminent is altogether unknown, and wrapt in pain
ful uncertainly. I shall not do the new Adminis
tration tlie injustice of condemning it, in advance.
On the contrary, I earnestly desire that, enlighten
ed by it* own reflections, and by a deliberate re
view of all the great intereat* of the country, dr
prompted by public opinion, the benefit may be yet
secured of the practical execution of tboee princi
ples and measures, for which we have honeetiy con
tended, that peace and honor may be preserved,
and that this young but great natioa may be render
ed harmonious, prosperous, and powerful.
We are not wilhmit consolation under (he event
which has happened. The Whig party has fully
and fairly exhibited to the country the priocipiea
and measures which it believed beat adapted to se
cure our liberties .and promote the common wel
fare. It has made, in their support, constant and
urgent appeals to Ihe reason and judgment of the
people. For myself, I have the high satisfisetion
to know that I have escaped a great and fearfwl re
sponsibility : and that, during the whole caovaas, 1
have done nothing inconsistent with the dictatee of «
tho purest honor. No mortal man ie authorised to
say that I held out to him the promise of any office
or appointment whatever.
VV lint now is the duly of the Whig party J I ven
ture to express an opinion with the greatest diffi.
dence. Tite future is enveloped in a veH impene
trable hy human eyes. I cannot contemplate it
without feelings of great discouragement. Bull
know of only one safe rifle in all the vicissitudes of
human life, public and private, and that is conscien
tiously lo satisfy ourselves of what is right, and
firmly and undeviatingly to pursue it under all triala
und circumstances, confiding in the great Ruler of
Universe for ultimate success. The Whig9 are
deliberately convinced of the troth and wisdom of
tite principles and measure* which they have es
poused. It ssetns, therelore, to me, that they
should persevere in contending for them ; and that,
adheriug lo their separate and distinct organiza
tion, they should treat all who have the good of
their country in view with respect andj sympathy,
und invite llteir co-operation in securing the patri
otic objects which it has been their aim and pur
pose to accomplish.
1 heartily thank you, sir, for your friendly wish
es for my happiness in ihe retirement which, hence
forward, bust becomes me. Here 1 hope to enjoy
peace and tranquility, seeking faithfully to perform
in the walks of private life, whatever duties may
yet appertain to met And I shall never cease,
whilst life remains, lo look witii lively interest and
deep solicitude upon the movement and operations
f our free system of Government, and to hope
that under tite smile* of an ail.wise Providence,
the Republic may be ever just, honorable, prosper,
ous and great.
A New Dish fob Two.—The family Cook
Book, published in London, a quaint affair, gives the
following receipe for a‘Dish for two,’called Mar
riage. it may be new to some in thia part of the
world :
“Catch a young gentleman and lady. Thj
young gentleman will be best raw, and the young
lady quite tender. 8ot the gentleman at the din
ner-table ; take a bottle of wine—claret is good,
port is better ; a dash of champaign will give it a
briskness ; let him soak in this mixture fur a coup,
le’of hours, if no signs of boiling, try another bottle.
When getting rod in the gilie, take him in
the drawing room t if in winter, set him at Ihe
fireside with the lady, throw in a dish of green tea,
of nbout three cups each; let them simmer togeth
er. if in the summer lime, place them in a cur
rent of uir, as near the window and as much out of
sight as you can ; stick the lady all over with flow.
>>rs, then pluce them near the piano, aud keep stir-
ring them till the lady sings. When you hear the
gentleinnnjaigh all is going on well. Then Uka
them off, and pul them in a corner of ibe room on
n sofa, near a dies* board, if possible, and leave
them together simmering for tlw rest of tlio eve
ning. Repeat tUs three or four times, luking earn
to keep them as close together as youcan. Great
care must be taken about the degree of heat, if too
great they will explode and fly off; if too little,
they will turn into a jelly, or perhaps an iee. The
host Item is the moderate, regular, and constant.
The length of time during which it Is to be applied
must be according to circumstances. For a gen
tleman and ludy, under five and twenty, threo
months, three weeks, or three days, are sometimes
sufficient, but in every instance there must be great
precaution to avoid a boil. A certain mjantityof
“Queen’s coin” put in during the cooking, will
Itave a great rfitect in keeping up the heart; Ihe
dish will look remarkably well if garnished round
with hank paper; it raey then be served up, and
will make an excellent dish for two. Cere should
he taken that no vinegar is used, as the dish ie re
markably apt lo turn sour."
WHAT MAKB8 A GENTLEMAN T Till* is S auOS-
tioti more asily eusked than answered- We find a
reference lo what belongs to the character of a
gentleman in a vary oddplace.- The eentence of
death passed upon a young man named Dunn’ at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, for the murder of a gale
keeper in a quarrel aheut Dunn's refusal to pay
lull. The learned Judge Paltran, in recapitulat
ing the facts of the ease to the convict, after thu
verdict, uses this language :
“You were again attempting lo peas without pay.
ing. You were followed by the deceased. You
tdded insult to meditated fraud. You threw down
the toll (which was two cents) contemptuously on
the ground, instead of paying it like a man and a
gentleman.”
Titis is very odd language certainly under Ihe
circumstance, particularly as it is followed by the
words that “you then and there ha bangadbytha
neck untiiyouare dead.”
JV. Y. American.
Tub Mothzb or thb Sumbsx Twins.—
Mr. Hetneewsy, in his Journal which hae just ap
peared in the Missionary Herald, gives and inter
est ing account of hi* visit to the mother of the Sia
mese twins. Site resides at a village oaliad Mak-
long, Southwost of Bangkok. She had supposed
her children were dead, and was much gratified to
learn that they were living in America, and had
married sistets in one of the southern elutes. The
mother it is stated has two husbands, both China-
men, and she herself had a Chinese father, so (hat
tite twins are in no sense Siameee, except that they
were boru in Siam.
Pathos.—A new paper just publish ad in Nnplu,
' iu editor’s
I will not affect indifference lo the personal con-
oern which I hud tn the political contest, just let-
Illinois, ha* the fqllowiag sentence in
-slutary address: “With fearless footsteps we’ll
tread the billows beneath the eky of wrath,oar hal
liards tipped with fire—carrying with use tongue
of thunder—aud nose shall Conquer uatil the Hist
armed man has deserted, or Alien in the conflict.”
O) gracious, don’t.
Socles derive their
some people we
weight.
the foot *et
•bate food